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June 25, 2025
Why Education is a Growing Cyber Target
The Alarming Rise of Attacks on the Education Sector Cyberattacks against the education sector have surged in recent years. SecurityScorecard’s 2025 Global Third-Party Breach Report found that while education accounted for only 2.5% of third-party breaches, its exposure… Read More
Cybersecurity
June 24, 2025
Sender Policy Framework (SPF): How It Stops Email Spoofing
The Rise of Email Spoofing and the Need for SPF Email remains the most abused communication channel for cyberattacks. Threat actors regularly spoof trusted domains to trick recipients into clicking malicious links, opening attachments, or wiring money to fraudulent accounts. While no single solution… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Are the Key Steps to Achieve PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance?
PCI DSS 4.0: What Changed and Why It Matters The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) sets the baseline for how organizations protect cardholder data. Version 4.0, which introduced major updates as of March 2025, provides a significant shift in… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Are Best Practices for Data Security for Sensitive Data?
Why Securing Sensitive Data Is a Business Imperative Sensitive data fuels a plethora of businesses in 2025, from customer engagement to financial reporting. And countless organizations touch sensitive customer data, such as Protected Health Information (PHI) to Personally Identifiable… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Is a Zero-Day Exploit and Why Is It So Dangerous?
What Makes a Zero-Day Exploit So Critical? A zero-day exploit is one of the most dangerous tools in a threat actor’s arsenal. It allows attackers to exploit a software vulnerability before the affected vendor discovers it—and before any fix exists. Read More
June 24, 2025
Top Strategies for Preventing Domain Hijacking
What Is Domain Hijacking? Domain hijacking—the unauthorized takeover of a web domain—lets attackers reroute traffic, impersonate brands, and phish users. Domain hijacking can take place when bad actors manipulate registrar settings such as Domain Name System (DNS) records or contact information. Read More
June 24, 2025
How Do You Perform an Effective Network Security Assessment?
What Is a Network Security Assessment? A network security assessment is a structured process to identify, analyze, and prioritize risks across your network infrastructure. It evaluates how effectively your environment prevents, detects, and responds to threats. Assessments reveal: Misconfigured… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Is a CVE and How Should You Prioritize Patch Management?
What Is a CVE? CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. It’s a globally accepted system for identifying, cataloging, and referencing publicly known cybersecurity flaws. Managed by MITRE and sponsored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department… Read More
June 24, 2025
IAM in 2025: Identity and Access Management Best Practices
Why IAM Is the Front Line of Cybersecurity Identity in cybersecurity isn’t just the way that humans log in to information systems and applications—it’s also one of the most attractive attack vectors for bad actors. As hybrid work, cloud… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Is DLL Hijacking? Understanding and Preventing the Threat
DLL hijacking is a long-standing exploitation technique that remains highly useful to hacking groups and Advanced Persistent Threat actors (APTs) in 2025. It allows attackers to execute malicious code by abusing how Windows loads Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files. Although the method originated as… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Is Nmap and How Can It Help Identify Network Vulnerabilities?
As organizations around the globe constantly shift infrastructure, visibility into your attack surface is everything. That’s why Nmap remains a mainstay for defenders in 2025—trusted for its flexibility, precision, and speed. Nmap (short for Network Mapper) is an open-source tool used by cybersecurity professionals to discover hosts,… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Is HTTPS and Why Is It Still Essential for Cybersecurity in 2025?
As organizations shift toward cloud-first and API-centric infrastructure, secure web browsing and HTTPS encryption must remain top priorities. HTTPS, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, continues to serve as the backbone of encrypted web communications. Despite widespread adoption, many implementations remain flawed. Misconfigurations, expired… Read More
Threat-Informed TPRM
June 24, 2025
What Is a Web Application Firewall and Do You Need One?
In 2025, organizations depend on web applications for everything from customer engagement to internal systems. Web apps are now business-critical—but they are increasingly under attack. Unlike network-layer attacks, which focus on brute force or protocol-level flaws, application-layer attacks exploit business logic and user interactions. These attacks are… Read More
June 24, 2025
How Do You Stay FERPA Compliant? A Cybersecurity Guide for IT Leaders
What Is FERPA and Why It Matters to IT Leaders Bridging compliance and cybersecurity in the education sector The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1974 to safeguard student education records. It applies to all… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Is CIFS and How Does It Impact Enterprise File System Security?
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) was once a vital component of file-sharing in Windows environments. Developed by Microsoft in the 1990s, CIFS enabled network-based access to files, printers, and other shared resources—revolutionizing distributed computing at the time. Today, however, it poses a growing risk to… Read More
June 24, 2025
What Are Lessons Learned from the Biggest Financial Sector Cyber Breaches?
Why the Financial Sector Remains a Top Target An industry under constant threat from ransomware, supply chain compromise, and cloud misconfiguration Financial institutions store high-value data and underpin global economic activity. In 2025, this makes them a continuous target for cyberattacks. From multinational banks to… Read More
June 24, 2025
Top Free Port Scanner Tools for IT and Cybersecurity Teams
Why Port Scanners Still Matter in 2025 A foundational tool in defending modern attack surfaces Port scanners remain essential to cybersecurity workflows, even as organizations adopt zero trust models and cloud-native tooling. In 2025, attackers still rely on port scanning to… Read More
Threat-Informed TPRM
June 23, 2025
Unmasking A New China-Linked Covert ORB Network: Inside the LapDogs Campaign
LapDogs: China-Linked ORB Network Revealed in Global Espionage Campaign SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has identified a previously unreported Operational Relay Box (ORB) Network—LapDogs—a novel and prolonged espionage infrastructure campaign that marks yet another instance of China-Nexus cyber actors leveraging ORB Networks. Key Takeaways… Read More
STRIKE Team
June 23, 2025
Understanding Third-Party Risk: Identifying and Mitigating External Threats
Why Third-Party Risk Is Critical Businesses are increasingly dependent on an ever-expanding ecosystem of vendors, software platforms, and service providers. These relationships power everything from invoicing and authentication to cloud storage and customer engagement—but every connection expands the attack surface, and bad actors know… Read More
June 20, 2025
What Does the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Require?
What Is the GLBA and Why Was It Enacted? The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), passed in 1999, reshaped the U.S. financial industry by allowing institutions to offer banking, securities, and insurance services under one roof. But with expanded financial services came increased exposure of sensitive customer data. Read More
June 19, 2025
What’s the Difference Between Authenticity and Non-Repudiation in Cybersecurity?
Why Identity Assurance Requires More Than Authentication Verifying identity in digital environments is essential, but proving who took a specific action—and holding them accountable—is a distinct and equally critical challenge. Many organizations treat authentication as the end of the identity verification process. But truly… Read More